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  LA CIGALE ET LE HIBOU , Fable 16

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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 16</span><span class="fp-text">LA CIGALE ET LE HIBOU</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XVI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">CICADA ET NOCTUA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Celui qui ne sait point se plier à la complaisance</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">est presque toujours puni de son orgueil.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Humanitati qui se non accommodat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">plerumque poenas oppetit superbiae.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une Cigale, de ses cris aigres, étourdissait un Hibou,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">accoutumé à poursuivre sa proie dans les ténèbres</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et à se reposer le jour dans le creux d'un arbre.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il la supplia de se taire ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle de crier plus fort. De nouvelles prières</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne servirent qu'à exciter la chanteuse. Le Hibou ne sachant que faire</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et voyant le peu de succès de ses demandes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">résolut d'employer la ruse.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Puisque tes chants, lui dit-il, m'empêchent de dormir,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car vraiment on croirait entendre la lyre d'Apollon,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">j'ai envie de goûter ce nectar dont Pallas</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">me fit dernièrement présent ; si tu ne le dédaignes pas, viens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et nous boirons ensemble.&nbsp;» La Cigale qui mourait de soif,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">n'eut pas plutôt entendu louer ses chants</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qu'elle prit son essor. Le Hibou sort de son trou,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la poursuit toute tremblante et la tue.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ainsi, ce que vivante elle avait refusé, morte elle l'accorda.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Cicada acerbum <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n107/mode/1up">p.44</a>]</span> noctuae convicium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">faciebat, solitae victum in tenebris quaerere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cavoque ramo capere somnum interdiu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Rogata est ut taceret. Multo validius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">clamare coepit. Rursus admota prece</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">accensa magis est. Noctua ut vidit sibi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nullum esse auxilium et verba contemni sua,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hac est adgressa garrulam <span class="fp-correction" title="fallatia  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">fallacia</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fallacia  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fallatia</span></span>&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Dormire quia me non sinunt cantus tui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sonare cithara quos putes Apollinis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">potare est animus nectar, quod Pallas mihi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nuper donavit ; si non fastidis, veni ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">una bibamus.&nbsp;» Illa quae ardebat siti,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">simul cognovit vocem laudari suam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cupide advolavit. Noctua egressa cavo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">trepidantem consectata est et <span class="fp-correction" title="leto  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">laeto</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="laeto  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">leto</span></span> dedit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sic viva quod negarat tribuit mortua.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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